Derere

What we know so far

Derere is Zimbabwe's okra relish, cooked the traditional way with no oil at all: sliced okra dropped into a little boiling water with a pinch of bicarbonate of soda (the old cooks used ash water, hence "rembatatisi"), beaten briskly with a wooden spoon until it turns slippery and glossy, with onion and tomato and sometimes pumpkin leaves stirred in. It is a poor man's relish that everyone with a garden grows, eaten with sadza, and people either love the slipperiness or cannot look at it.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

1. Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
2. Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
3. Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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